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Adoption - History

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6 works

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    Family matters : secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption / E. Wayne Carp.

    | E. Wayne Carp | Date: 1998
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    A child for keeps : the history of adoption in England, 1918-45 / Jenny Keating.

    | Keating, Jenny | Date: 2009
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    Blood ties and fictive ties : adoption and family life in early modern France / Kristin Elizabeth Gager.

    | Gager, Kristin Elizabeth | Date: [1996]
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    Like our very own : adoption and the changing culture of motherhood, 1851-1950 / Julie Berebitsky.

    | Berebitsky, Julie | Date: [2000]
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    Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

    | Herman, Ellen, 1957- | Date: 2008
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Families - History
History, 20th Century

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